Danah Boyd's It's Complicated: Myspace vs Facebook
Prompt:
Step #1: Read "Danah Boyd's "It's Complicated: Myspace vs Facebook" from pages 437 to page 444 of your book the “Signs of Life in the USA” 9th edition by author’s Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon.
Step #2: Now answer the following questions…
• Question 1). How according to Boyd's research, do digital choices reflect existing racial and class divisions?
• Question 2). What does the term "postracial society mantra" mean, as Boyd uses it?
• Question 3). What does the socialogical term "homophily" mean?
• Question 4). Summarize in your own words the racial "friending patterns on social network sites" that Boyd discovered in her research.
Notes from me to the writer…
• This assignment doesn't require it for it to be answered in paragraphs but rather just a few sentences for each question so should probably be just one page overall.
* The assignment must be done in Times New Roman Font Size 12 with 1 inch margins all around.
• The ISBN for the book of “Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers”. Ninth Edition is ISBN 1-3190-5663-6
• I did include image files with screenshots of the pages that include "Danah Boyd's "It's Complicated: Myspace vs Facebook" from pages 437 to page 444.
Thank you for your time.
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Boyd, Danna. It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens, My Space vs facebook. (2014).
The digital choices reflect racial, and class divisions using Facebook and MySpace. In this case, the majority of white students shifted from MySpace to Facebook, and now other races of students such as blacks associate more with MySpace. Therefore, racial divisions are reflected on Facebook through the kind of friends chosen by the students and thus the white students have most of the Facebook friends being white while most black students use MySpace. Therefore, it is likely that people tend to befriend individuals belonging to their race (Boyd 439).
The term postracial society mantra according to the context of the text means if students are not racists themselves, a force dictates the manner in which things happen due to racial segregation (Boyd 438). The students from free schools do not express forms of racism, but somehow while interacting wit...
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